JUNE,Edition # 27, 2001

How relevant is a ""suburban" culture health clinic to a remote Aboriginal community?

A doctor asked this at a recent workshop on the management of the widespread problem of chronic diseases (such as diabetes) in Aboriginal communities.

Just as it could be asked… How inventive are pharmacists in approaching the management of medications in remote Aboriginal communities?

Not very inventive should be the answer.

The Guild has a pile of money to establish QUM in these places but who knows how to get it?

Not many is the answer.

But it has been there since the announcement of the Third Agreement a year ago! Why?

It is called bureaucratic inertia.

That is when people in Canberra are out of touch with the real world and do not think anything is urgent.
They put up barriers, or more layers of bureaucracy, to make sure no one CAN be in a hurry. And if they are, there are plenty of reasons (or layers of bureaucracy) to make sure it can't happen quickly.

Come on give us a go…
we want to do it better, but who cares?!

Pull Your Finger Out

Anyone else with a similar problem??
Let us know!
Keep up the pressure and it will burst in the end.
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